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A Freeway Fight Launched Denver’s New Queer Latina Councilmember
In a progressive shake-up, 32-year-old community organizer Candi CdeBaca will take her advocacy work to the city council.
In Denver’s recent city council election, Albus Brooks, a well-funded, two-term incumbent councilman, was defeated in a June 4 runoff by a 32-year-old policy wonk and community organizer named Candi CdeBaca. A fifth-generation Denver native with a no-bullshit political style, CdeBaca has drawn comparisons from right-wing media and leftist groups alike to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman from New York City.
“Bet you never saw that coming,” she told me on the phone earlier this week.